Similar authors to follow

About Sahar Aref

Egyptian Indie Author. Majored in English and Comparative Literature, Girls' Colleges, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Had her Master's degree in sociology/anthropology at the American University in Cairo (AUC.)

She worked as free translator, sociology Tutor, research assistant, and Independent Author. She published her first Arabic book in 2007.

Being interested in human development and personal growth, Sahar became a student and a follower of the Late Dr. Ibrahim Elfiky's - a leading Egyptian expert in success and personal growth. With him, she was awarded a Trainer's and Assistant Hypnotist's certificates.

Sahar contributed in Brian Tracy's best seller, Cracking The Success Code (2012,) where she shared insights on her experience as a dedicated mother/housewife who successfully pulled herself out of her comfort zone and took steps towards achieving her career dreams.

Sahar Aref writes on success and personal growth where she sees that their principles from a Western and an Islamic points of view to be almost identical. She also writes on healthy family relationships and women's rights where she sees that defending women's rights means to defend the whole family's rights. For Sahar, when women enjoy their rights in full, their family members enjoy healthier existences.

Her recently published book, Fourth Wife Free, deals with the rising calls for polygamy practice in Muslim countries.

Author Updates

Each person needs to know herself/himself well. It is important that when you choose to study Medicine, for example, you know that you really want it and that you are ready to carry all the responsibilities that your decision brings. It is as important that a Muslim girl would know everything about herself and know everything her religion says about polygamy, for example, if ever she decides to go through that experience. If a Muslim girl knows that GOD is Compassionate and does n

The Daily Mail online had reported that an Ugandan man got married to three wives at the same time and on the same day. Two of his wives happened to be sisters. Click here to read the news on the Daily Mail online.
Originally, as long as all co-wives do agree and are happy with their polygamous arrangement, other people would better remain silent even if they disagree with them.
However, Islamic rules about whom one can be married to aren’t a matter of agreeing and disagreeing

Have you met polygamy advocates in Muslim countries! Have you met Sheikhs saying that polygamy is a destiny wrought on women! Have you met sociologists accusing first wives – who refuse polygamy – of being selfish! Have you met academicians believing that the spread of polygamy is a mission! Have you met ladies encouraging polygamy for others but not for themselves! Have you met women debasing women, “The fourth wife will be given for free!” Have you met women repeating that polygamy is a

When I heard that extremist Sheikh giving his opinion about polygamy in Islam, I was still too young to challenge it and too naive to drop it from my mind altogether. I couldn’t accept it neither. I could never accept the idea that my religion would impose polygamy on me despite my refusal? How could the tolerant Islam I had been brought up on be oppressive to women? Didn’t Prophet Muhammad treat women with respect, kindness, and care? Something was definitely wrong! For a wh

Meditation enhances the quality of our lifestyle. It boosts your decision making skills because it improves how you feel, how you think, and how you interact with others and with the whole universe. Sessions of meditation rid you from stress; they help you clear your mind, relax, focus, and thus connect you to your inner wisdom and to the outer wisdom as well. Very beneficial to our minds and bodies, meditation can take one of us into a different world of peace and abilities while still livin

Happiness comes to those who insist on having it and who exert effort for it. And when it comes, it blesses its owners with energy to do more efforts for more happiness and for creating more achievements in life. Don’t hesitate to put effort in the basket of your happiness, it’s a sacred effort that brings you the most precious thing in life. Do all what it takes to be happy and insist on that, for happiness is much worthier than the effort done for it.
DECIDE TO BE HAPPY
Happ

“I have tamed change and made it friendly.”
However, in order to do that, I have been taming myself too. I have been training it on accepting change and other life inconveniences with peaceful mind and self consciousness. That’s how I managed to be in control and to make good use of change.
Change is a universal Law of life and nature
People are governed by change: they are born, grow up, mate, live life, get old, see their own lives reproduced in their children and gr

Do you think that life would be better if its harsh face softens or disappears? Maybe you want to reconsider such opinion. If the harsh parts of life soften or disappear, there would be no challenge and no excitement in life. Actually, that would not be life, it would be the ‘afterlife’.
The harsh parts of life are very important for our development and growth. They teach us how to become strong and experienced persons; they push us to work hard and to have achievements; they ma

Aisha, Prophet Muhammad’s wife, had a bond maid (a slave girl,) named Barira who was married to a slave like herself. One day, Barira got lucky enough to escape slavery and become a free woman. Originally, a man slave was allowed to be married from among slave women only but in Barira;s case, she was already married to a slave when she became a free woman. So, Barira was given to choose whether to continue with her husband or to be separated from him because of her new condition.
Bari

It is said that when you come into possession of something, your excitement about it starts to fade. In other words, you find your comfort zone concerning that possession and you begin taking it for granted.
This happens when a child gets a new toy, it happens to young couples after marriage, and it may also happen to the wonderful tourist sites that fall in a nearby area to you.
Although I have always been keen not to fal